>>58639700Well anon, you should have had 2 sun setters and gave all your Pokemon the freeze curing berries and made all your Pokemon ice types including Tera Ice Torkoal!
>>58639462Freeze is a worse mechanic overall because GameFreak’s balancing philosophy for Freeze is 90% RNG and because Sleep is rarely inflicted with attacking moves.
Sleep has Relic Song and Dire Claw for attacking moves, which are both exclusive moves. Your other means to put Pokemon to sleep are Spore/Sleep Powder and Hypnosis.
Spore is rare
Spore and Sleep Powder can’t hit Grass types or Safety Goggle Pokemon
Hypnosis and Sleep Powder both have low accuracy
All 3 are status moves too, which comes with all the downsides of being a status move.
Freeze is only on attacking moves, which means even if it fails you still do damage.
This also means that no strategy relies on Freeze. With there being no reliable way to inflict Freeze and how random Freeze is, neither side can really prepare for it.
